Post by Xplode on May 15, 2014 20:33:28 GMT -5
I'd like to declare pyro season officially open!
Tuesday night we shot our very first show that had been scripted to music. A private client giving a presentation at the Vancouver Convention Center hired us to light up the sky in the water outside to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger." It was an instrumental version that I have to admit I really have grown to love... I'm humming it constantly, but that could be because I've heard it 2000 times in the past 3 weeks.
We fired the show using 12 Cobra Modules, 2 audio boxes, and an 18r2 plus a dish and booster. Show was scripted by myself and another pyro using my Finale Pro software. We used one audiobox inside the convention center building to feed into the DJ's equipment (> 2000' distance) and the second audio box was connected to a rented PA speaker so the crew could hear. I also ran a line into my double-muff radio headset so I could hear the music and still communicate with our guy inside the venue with ease. (Thanks Brian_O for the loaner)
We tested a little bit of the show a week and a half before and it worked well so we were pretty confident going in to Tuesday night. This was also the first opportunity I've had to work with nautical effects. Boo Yeah. at 3:20 in the video (bottom half the screen) you can see them exploding right next to, and ON the barge. The 2 cakes we were given to test out (day of show addition) both only fired some of the effects clear of the barge, and most of them only flew about 10-30', not the 60-100' they were supposed to. (Yes they were set at the manufacturer's reccomended angle). A handful, lets say 5 or 6, stayed inside the cake and functioned on the barge. Oh well - little bit of excitement but no one was hurt, we were really just checking them out to see about possible use in future shows... guess that was an easy decision.
We posted 3 GoPro cameras, plus a SLR. The video I slapped together is timed to the music (as captured on the SLR located inside the convention center) the same as it was heard by our audience. 1 GoPro was mounted center of the barge pointing straight up, another was on top of the bunker/shack thing facing the firing ramp, and the third was taped to a 4" rack, pointing up on an angle.
Here's the 4-corner type video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBzhNTvlpo
I will upload a full size version later. My internet is really slow to upload these big ass videos.
My internet is supremely slow
Tuesday night we shot our very first show that had been scripted to music. A private client giving a presentation at the Vancouver Convention Center hired us to light up the sky in the water outside to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger." It was an instrumental version that I have to admit I really have grown to love... I'm humming it constantly, but that could be because I've heard it 2000 times in the past 3 weeks.
We fired the show using 12 Cobra Modules, 2 audio boxes, and an 18r2 plus a dish and booster. Show was scripted by myself and another pyro using my Finale Pro software. We used one audiobox inside the convention center building to feed into the DJ's equipment (> 2000' distance) and the second audio box was connected to a rented PA speaker so the crew could hear. I also ran a line into my double-muff radio headset so I could hear the music and still communicate with our guy inside the venue with ease. (Thanks Brian_O for the loaner)
We tested a little bit of the show a week and a half before and it worked well so we were pretty confident going in to Tuesday night. This was also the first opportunity I've had to work with nautical effects. Boo Yeah. at 3:20 in the video (bottom half the screen) you can see them exploding right next to, and ON the barge. The 2 cakes we were given to test out (day of show addition) both only fired some of the effects clear of the barge, and most of them only flew about 10-30', not the 60-100' they were supposed to. (Yes they were set at the manufacturer's reccomended angle). A handful, lets say 5 or 6, stayed inside the cake and functioned on the barge. Oh well - little bit of excitement but no one was hurt, we were really just checking them out to see about possible use in future shows... guess that was an easy decision.
We posted 3 GoPro cameras, plus a SLR. The video I slapped together is timed to the music (as captured on the SLR located inside the convention center) the same as it was heard by our audience. 1 GoPro was mounted center of the barge pointing straight up, another was on top of the bunker/shack thing facing the firing ramp, and the third was taped to a 4" rack, pointing up on an angle.
Here's the 4-corner type video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBzhNTvlpo
I will upload a full size version later. My internet is really slow to upload these big ass videos.
My internet is supremely slow
